motioneye.sh

#!/bin/bash
set -e

# Install the dependencies from the repositories:
apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
    ffmpeg \
    libcurl4-openssl-dev \
    libjpeg-dev \
    libmariadbclient-dev \
    libpq5 \
    libssl-dev \
    libz-dev \
    python-dev \
    python-pip \
    v4l-utils \
    ;

# Install motion:
wget -O /tmp/motion.deb \
    https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/releases/download/release-4.1.1/pi_stretch_motion_4.1.1-1_armhf.deb && \
    dpkg --force-confold -i /tmp/motion.deb && \
    rm /tmp/motion.deb

# Fix possible broken libavcodec dependencies
apt-get -y --fix-broken install motion

# Install motioneye, which will automatically pull Python dependencies (tornado, jinja2, pillow and pycurl):
# note: If pillow installation fails, you can try installing it from official repos using apt-get install python-pillow.
pip install --upgrade motioneye

# Prepare the configuration and media directory:
mkdir -p /etc/motioneye /var/lib/motioneye && \
    cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.conf.sample /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf

# Add an init script, configure it to run at startup and start the motionEye server:
cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.systemd-unit-local /etc/systemd/system/motioneye.service && \
    systemctl daemon-reload && \
    systemctl enable motioneye && \
    systemctl start motioneye 

# To upgrade to the newest version of motionEye, just issue:
# pip install motioneye --upgrade && systemctl restart motioneye